Paul Adams

Road salt has a extreme negative impact on the state's environment. Road salt hurts our lakes, destroys our roads, kills our plants and is harmful to people and animals. The state and local governments long-term goal should be to eliminate the use and storage of salt sate wide. Controlling to storage and usage of salt on our roads is a good first step. Taxing the sale and use of salt is one way to assist in reaching these goals. State and local governments are the worst in the use and storage of excess salt (and other chemicals). The local landscape companies are big abusers of salt as well. The State of NH, town and cities and local landscape companies refuse to join the state-run Green Snow Pro program because it will cost them more and the state not only doesn't require them but doesn't provide a good example. Salt use on our roads works well but at what cost? There are other products that work as well and do not have as many negative impacts.